[Year 67, age 85.]
[After Zhen Pin's death, you spoke much less.]
[After all, there were no peers your age in the army.]
[Because of the "Ginger Gets Spicier With Age" trait, you didn't feel your Vitality Energy decline, but a familiar sense of emptiness welled up day by day.]
[You knew this was the feeling of your great limit approaching.]
[The effect of the trait couldn't extend your lifespan; when your allotted life span was exhausted, you still had to go.]
[As the Demon-Extermination Army put out fires everywhere, the demon tribes within the Five Regions were forced to consolidate from scattered units, gathering together and acting collectively.]
[Among the Five Regions, the Central Plains had the densest population and the richest resources.]
[After gathering, the demon tribes also primarily operated within the Central Plains.]
[So, in these years of campaigning, your Cloud Summit Flying Boat basically never flew out of the Central Plains, constantly flying back and forth over the Two Capitals and Eighteen Provinces of the Great Qian.]
[Of course, at this time, there was no point quibbling over which provinces, lost to the north and south during the previous struggle for legitimacy among the northern, central, and southern factions, now belonged to whom.]
["Marshal, the demon horde's village massacre near Tangshan City was just a feint. The moment we were about to arrive, they scattered and fled. Their real concentrated superior force attacked the Nushan Spirit Crystal mine three hundred miles away, plundering a massive amount of Spirit Crystals!"]
[Sitting atop the Cloud Summit Flying Boat, you listened to your subordinate's military report while reading a book on military strategy.]
[Spirit Crystals played a crucial role in this war.]
[Just like oil providing energy for tanks during World War II.]
[Including the Cloud Summit Flying Boat you were currently sitting on, its ability to fly back and forth relied on a massive supply of Spirit Crystals.]
[The Cangqiong Ridge frontline burned through Spirit Crystals daily to maintain the operation of numerous formations.]
[Ensuring the supply lines for Spirit Crystals, provisions, and equipment to the frontline was also a vital task for your Demon-Extermination Army.]
["Since when do the demon tribes use military strategy? Didn't they always prefer to rely on brute force? There must be an expert guiding them from behind…"]
[Not long after, you discovered this expert.]
[If the demon tribes used military strategy, so could you.]
[You were even slightly better than them.]
[Using three Spirit Crystal veins as bait, you feigned retreats, constantly pretended to be defeated, luring the enemy's main force to assemble.]
[When the demon tribes discovered they had a chance to sever the frontline Spirit Crystal supply line, they launched a frenzied offensive, pushing deep until they finally fell into your encirclement .]
[Qian Province, Changhen Slope. As you began closing the
at this location, you spotted an old acquaintance on the battlefield.]
["Feng Yucheng, I should have guessed it was you. Because you siding with the demon tribes isn't surprising at all."]
[Feng Yucheng, former Chief Commissioner of the Baiyun County Demon Slaying Division, colluded with the demon tribes in the Baiyun County area and the local magistrate to falsify demon murder cases as ordinary homicides.]
[Through this, he deceived his superiors and subordinates, allowing the Baiyun County demon tribes to obtain a stable supply of human prey long-term.]
[Simultaneously, those demon tribes also refined the sinister Blood Demon Pills for Feng Yucheng, enabling him, with his Low-Grade Bone Structure, to possess considerable martial cultivation.]
[For such a person to stand with the demon tribes after the war between the two races broke out was indeed not unexpected.]
[Feng Yucheng glanced at you; he didn't recognize you.]
[In this simulation, the two of you might have crossed paths once, but you didn't join the Demon Slaying Division as a Demon Slayer, nor did you exchange more than a few words with Feng Yucheng, so of course he didn't know who you were.]
["I never expected the famously renowned Grand Marshal of the Demon-Extermination Army to know an insignificant nobody like me, hehe…"]
[Feng Yucheng likely served a role similar to a Strategist within the Five Regions demon army, providing tactical plans for the remaining demon tribes.]
[What puzzled you was this.]
[Back when you were eighteen, Feng Yucheng was already a middle-aged man.]
[By conservative estimate, he should be over twenty years older than you.]
[You were eighty-five; Feng Yucheng should be over a hundred years old.]
[It wasn't impossible for a person to live to a hundred, but why did Feng Yucheng's appearance and physical constitution not look like those of a centenarian?]
[He seemed to still look the same as before.]
[Even if he took Face-Preserving Pills to retain his appearance, that shouldn't prevent his physique from aging, right?]
[He didn't have the "Ginger Gets Spicier With Age" trait.]
["General Wang Ping, help me assess this person's cultivation level."]
[Wang Ping was one of the generals under your command, originally the head of a martial arts family from the Central Plains, possessing Spirit Condensation realm cultivation, so he had spiritual sense.]
["Yes!"]
[Your ferocity in slaying demons on the battlefield and the sheer number you slaughtered made you the bravest champion of the three armies.]
[Yet you were only at the Golden Body realm, which truly baffled those like Wang Ping who possessed spiritual sense.]
[Initially, they thought you were hiding your cultivation.]
[Later, they discovered you genuinely had no spiritual sense and seemed to truly be only at the Golden Body realm.]
[They respected you even more.]
[At such an advanced age, with cultivation only at the Golden Body realm, how fiercely formidable were you?]
[If you were younger and had a higher realm…]
[How terrifying would that be?]
["Marshal, he should be at Golden Body, third layer."]
[You smiled.]
["Oh, two layers higher than me. Kill him."]
["As you command!"]
[Generals like Wang Ping, who had higher cultivation realms, began surrounding and attacking Feng Yucheng on the chaotic battlefield.]
[The demon tribes desperately tried to protect Feng Yucheng.]
[This wasn't hard to understand; with Feng Yucheng helping them, their recent operations had actually succeeded a few times.]
[You hadn't planned to personally attack Feng Yucheng because he was human, and your "Alien's Biological Father" trait wouldn't take effect.]
[Even though, due to the "Proficiency" trait, your mastery in various techniques was extremely high, and you possessed the Immortal Artifact Ten Thousand Souls Banner, making your combat power not weak at all.]
[But with people of higher realm than Feng Yucheng dealing with him, why should you, the Grand Marshal, take the risk?]
[That was until you noticed something off about Feng Yucheng.]
[He transformed!]
[A pair of sharp, lightning-shaped horns grew from his head, a long tail covered in barbs and scales sprouted behind him, his entire face elongated like a bird's beak, his body surface became covered in black scales, and a pair of fleshy wings even grew from his back!]
["A little dragon-man?"]
[Just a black one.]
[The transformed Feng Yucheng's combat power exploded off the charts. Fighting alongside a group of Spirit Condensation realm demons, he beat generals like Wang Ping into a steady retreat.]
[Seeing Wang Ping and the others in mortal danger, you began to roll up your sleeves.]
["Look at you, a perfectly good human not being one, choosing to be a monster instead. Then don't blame my fists for being hard."]
[You charged into the battlefield, fighting with wide, sweeping movements. The Ten Thousand Souls Banner released tens of thousands of Demon Souls, directly applying dimensional suppression and trampling the demon horde!]
[Seeing your display, Feng Yucheng thought, what the hell was there left to fight?]
["Retreat! Retreat! Retreat!!"]
["Demons, don't you dare run!! Die!!!"]
[Your appearance was utterly terrifying to the demon tribes.]
[You, in youth, were the Red-Haired Demon Slayer; in old age, you were Demonbane; now, with your great limit approaching, you were the Grand Marshal of Demon-Extermination!]
[The demon tribes seeing you was like witnessing Death himself arriving!]
[The number of demons you slaughtered in your lifetime was beyond count; their resentment formed a tangible aura around you.]
[We typically call this kind of aura — killing intent!]
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